The Manor Houses of Lackham 1050-1949 2nd Ed

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Houses of Lackham 2 nd ed 25 Because of this the reliability of the dating of this map is questionable and it is not felt that a date of 1794 for the existence of the new house can be definitely made. The new house was a rectangular structure of two floors with a service block on the east and west end, separated from the main building but linked to it by a corridor running along the northern side of the building. Those who know Newton Park in B&NES will be familiar with this construction except that at Newton the connecting corridor is curves to bring the end blocks in front of the line of the main house; at Lackham the wall lines of the main house determine the north and south wall locations of the service blocks. There were areas between the wings and the main house, clearly seen on the maps above, open to the south. The house didn‟t remain like this for long. The eventual owner after the Montagus lost the estate was Captain Frederick Rooke. He made “substantial improvements" see below. A map used in the 1831 sale offer is thought to have been produced “about 1816” 38 , in which case it was made at about the time that the Trustees rented the estate to Col. Tufnell for a few years.. This map (Fig. 13 below) shows that the arrangement of the drives had been changed; the original entrance drive had been re-aligned at its eastern end to connect with the new house. It is clear that the drive arrives at the south side of the house rather than on the north as it does now. At this date the main entrance was where the current French windows open onto the garden terrace. 38 Harvey, RB (1991) The Site of Old Lackham House -a report drawn up in response to an enquiry by the late CAO of Lackham, Mr de Cordova, this report dated April 1991. Lackham College papers, Wiltshire College Lackham Library.
Houses of Lackham 2 nd ed 26 Fig. 14 Map made c 1816 39 ** The curving line running from the woods to the east of the house, all around the house and back to the woods might be a “ha-ha” 40 but would appear to be running along to the south of the ha-ha line, which runs along the southern side of the walk to the walled garden, The remains of this ha-ha can be seen both north and south of the house today 39 W&SHC 137/125/14 Redrawn for this work, by the author , from the original in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre 40 Jellicoe, G, Jellicoe, S, Goode, P and Lancaster, M (1991) The Oxford Companion to Gardens p241 Ha ha – a dry ditch with a raised retaining wall used to conceal the boundaries of an estate or landscape. This feature was French in origin, appearing at Versailles and elsewhere in the 17th c. The earliest English example though of small extent, was introduced c 1695 at Levens Hall by the French gardener Mssr Beaumont. Its use was also advocated in Dezallier d‟Argentville‟s “Le Theorie et la practique de jardinage” (1709) translated by John James. Switzer was probably unaware of the distant example at Levens but, following John James, he describes a feature like a ha-ha in Ichonographia Rustica (1718) A major function of the ha ha was to serve as a “hidden fence”, keeping livestock out of the gardens without a visible barrier
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